June 14, 15, 16 at Harvard University

Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Stephenson Chair of Data Science, Director of the Data Science InstituteProfessor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia

Phil Bourne is the Stephenson Chair of Data Science, Director of the Data Science Institute and a Professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Virginia. Prior to that he was the Associate Director for Data Science (ADDS; aka Chief Data Scientist) for the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and a Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI).

At #dataverse2017, Dr. Bourne will present "Are Funders and Academic Institutions Approaches to Data Science Aligned?" as a keynote on June 15.... Read more about Phil Bourne

Associate Professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Victoria Stodden is an associate professor in the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, with affiliate appointments in the School of Law, the Department of Computer Science, the Department of Statistics, the Coordinated Science Laboratory, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

She completed both my PhD in statistics and my law degree at Stanford University.

She is an affiliate scholar with the Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School, a faculty affiliate of the Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), and a visiting scholar at the Social and Decision Analytics Laboratory at the Biocomplexity Institute at Virginia Tech.

Her research centers on the multifaceted problem of enabling reproducibility in computational science. This includes studying adequacy and robustness in replicated results, designing and implementing validation systems, developing standards of openness for data and code sharing, and resolving legal and policy barriers to disseminating reproducible research.